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...of instructing the children of the vicinity. He was a native of Connecticut. He was tall, but very lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, and feet that might have served as shovels. His head was small, with huge ears, large, glassy eyes,...

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...all. But with what a master hand are drawn the few lines that portray his grotesque personality! " He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...loosely hung together. His head was small and flat on top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock...

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...or incongruous, through figures of speech or through the connotation of words. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but...loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at the top, with huge ears, large, green, glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a...

...for the mind as well as for the forest, and sends forth yearly its legions of frontier woodmen and inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly...for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung 5 together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long...

...of a merry meeting. 12. Master Simon was in as chipper a humor as a grasshopper filled with dew. 14. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders,...shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. 15. Another of his sources of fearful pleasure was to pass long winter evenings with the old Dutch...

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